Cramer Quick Take: CAT Has Nowhere to Go But Up

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Sometimes a company can set the base so low there's nowhere left to go but up.

Those were Jim Cramer's thoughts to Debra Borchardt at TheStreet.com Monday. He said if this was 2012, the markets would have pulverized shares of Caterpillar (CAT) after such disappointing results. In 2013, that's all changed.

Cramer explained that in today's market, investors are operating on the premise that the world is moving to a better place, and that means negatives can be ignored as investors focus on the promise of the positives.